Hey brother! J, on this channel we talk about Disney, Pixar, Star Wars,
Harry Potter, and Marvel. Right now, Disney owns every single one of those properties
except for Harry Potter, which is presently owned by Warner Brothers for now.
But in the recent weeks, Disney has purchased yet another massive property: Fox Entertainment.
There are so many questions and implications when it comes to Disney in general, like is
Anastasia a Disney princess now (full video by clicking the card) and what does it mean for their Disney parks? For example,
they had already licensed the avatar from Fox back in 2011 so now they just own that outright
But just across the way at Universal
There is Simpsons land which is licensed from Fox just so many questions so today. We discuss what it all means.
Nowadays when people refer to Disney
I generally assume they're talking about their major movie franchises
Disney
themselves Pixar Star Wars and Marvel what you might actually be surprised just how much more falls underneath that Disney umbrella
Obviously there are the eight Disney parks in Florida, California, Japan Paris and Hong Kong
But you may be less aware of their other media networks including ABC entertainment and news
80% of ESPN
30% of Hulu
50% of AME and 10% of vice and now they have added Fox
Entertainment to the mix which adds a ton of new properties to their already very impressive collection,
I don't think we could possibly name them all but probably most notably would include avatar the highest-grossing film of all time
Which now means that Disney owns the right to six of the top ten highest grossing films ever
And then of course there is x-men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool so expect all sorts of new reboots from them although
I have a feeling Brian Reynolds and Deadpool will just get away with it somehow either way it means with the exception of randomly
She-hulk Disney now has access to every other Marvel character, and then of course
There is also the entirety of blue-sky animation studios
Which are famously responsible for I saved in the Rio movies along with others.
And then finally the myriad of TV shows including Empire, Family Guy, The Simpsons
Yeah, The Simpsons are now a Disney product. How weird is that, Man it is amazing
What a mere fifty two point four billion dollars can get you these days isn't it. It is probably worth mentioning that they only bought
the Fox entertainment side and not the Fox News or sports channels either way to give you a scale of this purchase prior
Disney owned a twenty one point eight percent of the market share for
studio films and Fox was in fourth with
12 percent this means that this acquisition moves Disney to it thirty three point eight percent of the market share that is
Over one third of all of the media consumed and in case you're counting
That's almost double second place with Warner Brothers at eighteen percent market share.
But as
commanding as that is over the
Competition and as cool as it is that we're going to get all sorts of new a Marvel Cinematic Universe
Movies none of that is the reason why Disney made this decision
The real reason for this decision is to reinforce their army in the great
Streaming war where their main opponent is none other than Netflix at one point. I'm Netflix owned as much as
57% of the streaming market share but in recent years with new additions to the market itself have dropped down to
36%. Netflix is story is actually
Unbelievably interesting they basically built an empire sourcing all of their media from different networks
And then used all of their profits to create their own media.
And they are taking it seriously Netflix is pumping eight billion
dollars a year into original programming and the results have been great
We've gotten stranger things, house of cards, orange is the new black, Ki mmy Schmidt, Bojack horse man,
master of none,
daredevil and the list goes on all of their own original content mixed in with like seasons upon seasons of your favorite shows and
Movies makes Netflix a great place to spend your money
But with more networks and studios entering the streaming war and with Disney's own
Looming project for a streaming service you can imagine that all of the properties under their umbrella
Might start to get pulled from the Netflix offerings and that is where things start to get extremely
interesting especially between now and 2019
When Disney streaming service is pegged to launch because in addition to launching their own streaming service Disney also owns?
30% of Hulu and just purchased Fox who also owned 30% of Hulu so if I can do my math correctly 30 plus 30 is
60%
controlling interest in Hulu
so there is some potential to see a lot of that content being funneled out of Netflix and into Hulu at
least until Disney launches its own mega subscription service and by mega service
I mean access to all of Star Wars Pixar Marvel Disney Disney Animation's blue sky, The Simpsons family Guy and
Anything freaking Al's created by either studio all in one place
And then on top of that they already have plans in place to start creating some of their own original content
That would only be available through the subscription service
Can you imagine Disney making its own Game of Thrones quality big-budget Star Wars?
I've action series now that I've mentioned it. Can you even think about anything else? I can't or even talking about
Oh, yeah
That's a real thing and it's already in the works the point is that is a lot of entertainment
And they could comfortably charge a lot for it how much would you pay a month to have access to the entire?
Disney library the entire library do you have any idea how much I have personally spent buying
every single movie
Individually what that final monthly fee ends up being will be very interesting because as it says right now
You can very comfortably subscribe to multiple different services and still have it be less than cable which like
cable
but if you're Disney
And you control that much media you can charge a fairly significant fee for that
Service and with that people might not subscribe to multiple services which leads me to my question of the day
Would you bail on Netflix? Would you just get both services?
What do you think about this acquisition and most importantly which franchise?
are you most excited to see rebooted under the Disney umbrella leave your thoughts in the towel section down below like
Personally we love Disney
I'm so excited about having access to everything in one particular place, but I don't know how I feel about how it almost like
monopolizes all of entertainment and a special
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